Is Aldi Gaston roosters Flaming’ hot chicken breast strips ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 22 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score B
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
chicken breast fillet 59%, Wheat Flour, Water, Rice Flour, Sunflower Oil (processing marker), Maize Flour, Corn Starch (processing marker), Diphosphates (ultra-processing marker), Sodium Carbonates, Glucose Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Paprika, Modified Potato Starch (ultra-processing marker), Cayenne Pepper, Black Pepper, Corn Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Yeast, Spice Extract, Yeast Extract, Triphosphates (ultra-processing marker), Xanthan Gum (ultra-processing marker), Paprika Oleoresin (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E415 Xanthan gum , E450 Diphosphates , E451 Triphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates
As written on the pack
CHICKEN BREAST FILLET (59%), Wheat Flour, Water, Rice Flour, Sunflower Oil, Maize Flour, Corn Starch, Raising Agents: Diphosphates, Sodium Carbonates; Glucose Syrup, Salt, Paprika, Modified Potato Starch, Cayenne Pepper, Black Pepper, Corn Dextrose, Yeast, Spice Extract, Yeast Extract, Stabiliser: Triphosphates; Thickener: Xanthan Gum; Paprika Oleoresin
What makes it ultra-processed
Cosmetic additives
Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
- E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
- E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
- E451 Triphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
Substances rarely used in home kitchens
Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
3 ingredients that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 78 cooked chicken
From least to most processed, this one ranks 75th. 79% of the cooked chicken here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600241388, last edited 13 August 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
- NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of B (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.